Mum finds kind stranger who helped calm her kids down during flights

A delighted mother has managed to find the stranger who helped her calm her two children during two flights, after launching an online appeal.

Jessica Rudeen, from the US, decided to track down the kind man who assisted her in calming her three-year-old, Caroline, during her first flights alone with her two kids.

Taking to social media on April 14, she explained just how much she had been struggling while boarding the flight.

“My 4-month-old was screaming his head off because, due to a series of unexpected events, I was unable to nurse him before boarding the plane,” she wrote on Facebook. “My 3-year-old, who was excited before boarding the plane, lost her nerve and began screaming and kicking ‘I want to get off the plane! I don’t want to go!’ I honestly thought we’d get kicked off the plane.”

Rudeen explained the man, named Todd, offered to hold her four-month-old, Alexander, while she attempted to calm Caroline down as they got to their seats.

“This man reached for the baby and held him while I forced a seatbelt on Caroline, got her tablet and started her movie. Once she was settled and relatively calmed, he distracted her so that I could feed Alexander,” she added.

The kind man entertained her kids on two separate flights. (Getty)

The mother-of-two went on to detail how Todd entertained her daughter throughout the flight before helping them onto their connecting flight.

“By the end of the flight, he was Caroline’s best friend. Amazingly, we had the same connection in Charlotte to Wilmington, a connection he navigates frequently for work,” she explained. “He helped us get off the plane and led us to the next gate with Caroline in hand. If that wasn’t enough, he changed his seat on the next flight to sit in our row to help us.”

Rudeen then told her Facebook followers just how much his help meant to her.

“This guy, Todd, showed me kindness and compassion that I’ve never known from another person. His wife, he said, had a similar experience when their two boys were young and a stranger showed her the same kindness,” she wrote.

After ending the message asking for help to find Todd, she soon updated the post to reveal they had been put in touch with each other.

She wrote: “Update! I’ve been connected with his wife and hoping we can get together soon!”